The Book Burning By aretizmd 1931 Book Burning is organised by the German Student Association http://www.memorialmuseums.org/eng/staettens/view/1417/Book-Burning-Memorial# Apr 12, 1933 Action against the "Un-German Spirit" begins http://www.memorialmuseums.org/eng/staettens/view/1417/Book-Burning-Memorial# May 10, 1933 "Fire Oath". Nazi Students burn the works of hundreds of independent authors, journalists, philosophers and academics http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning 1934 Author Erich Muhsam is murdered by members of the SS in the Oranienburg concentration camp http://www.visitberlin.de/en/book-burning-memorial-bebelplatz 1938 Publicist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky dies after several years at the Esterwegen concentration camp http://www.visitberlin.de/en/book-burning-memorial-bebelplatz 1943 Jewish author Gertrud Kolmar is deported to Auschwitz http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?ModuleId=10005852&MediaId=3533 Mar 20, 1995 The Book Burning Memorial (entitled " The Sunken Library") is unveiled http://www.visitberlin.de/en/book-burning-memorial-bebelplatz